As collectivization began to become more and more radical, you begin to see the early stages of where things could go very wrong. Despite what appeared to be impressive industrial output, like we're talking like an additional increase of 19% per year. But it was a big increase of quantity over quality. And remember that land issue that we were talking about before? Well, as things became more and more collectivized on a larger scale, rural people started to resist this private property seizure.
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Instead it would result in the death of millions.
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